All you need is a horse, a tree, and a rope.
Posted on 01/29/2014 2:56:36 AM PST by Libloather
Edited on 01/29/2014 2:59:27 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
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It’s a heck of a lot quicker and cheaper.
What’s wrong with the drugs that the vet uses to put Fido down?
If the drug is humane enough for an animal, then it should be fine for death row scum.
An electric chair is probably a good thing, but with
Coal plants going off line, it should probably be a
hybred, with a small combustion engine to start it
with.
the 5 bolt action 30-06 rifles(one with blanks)that shot Garry Gilmore in Utah in the 1970s, is thankfully, overkill.
lets bring back the high powered rifle firing squad.
All you need is a horse, a tree, and a rope.
That’s twistedly funny.
OK, so they did not commit the crime. That’s ok. But what if they had a mile long rap sheet and society would be better off without them around? I’d feel guilty about it for 10 minutes.
Crimes throughout the entire U.S. and U.S. territories will, greatly, increase after the next round of amnesty for illegal immigrants happens.
Getting ready for a big surge in customers when prosecutions begin for Obama, Holder and their entire crew?
Too many confounding variables.
What is really needed is for a conservative to be chairmen of the Senate and House judiciary committees, and to declare states to be “competent authorities” in carrying out executions, so the methods used are no longer open to federal judicial oversight.
This is part of a larger judicial reform on the subject of the death penalty, which includes:
1) Moving all death penalty appeals to the head of the federal docket of the judge hearing them.
2) That delays in appellate hearings be limited to one month each for the defense, prosecution, and at the discretion of the judge.
3) That unless evidence exonerates the defendant, or court officers in the criminal trial have engaged in criminal misconduct, the federal judge cannot overturn a sentence, or return it to the trial court with instructions to overturn. Instead if he finds in favor of the defendant, the case should be returned to the trial court for reconsideration, without recommendation. If the trial court affirms the sentence, then the issue is closed.
4) The intention is that from the date of sentencing, the most delay any convict should experience before execution is five years, instead of decades.
Nitrogen Asphyxiation - Strap the condemned to a chair, supply 99% Nitrogen gas at 1.1 atmospheres through a breathing mask and a brain monitor. Pump the nitrogen until the brain waves go flat. The condemned goes to sleep and due to the lack of oxygen, dies within 5 to 10 min.
It’s cheap, all natural (our atmosphere is 78% nitrogen already), non-toxic (unlike some gas chamber mixes), painless, no mess to clean up, no chance of failure and no more shortage of drugs.
“Nitrogen Asphyxiation - Strap the condemned to a chair, supply 99% Nitrogen gas at 1.1 atmospheres through a breathing mask and a brain monitor. Pump the nitrogen until the brain waves go flat. The condemned goes to sleep and due to the lack of oxygen, dies within 5 to 10 min.
It’s cheap, all natural (our atmosphere is 78% nitrogen already), non-toxic (unlike some gas chamber mixes), painless, no mess to clean up, no chance of failure and no more shortage of drugs.”
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Exactly. I’m surprised virtually no one is considering it. It’s not like nitrogen is some or rare or exotic substance, after all; it’s also quick, efficient, no medical skill is required, and it’s foolproof.
***states are considering bringing back relics of a more gruesome past:****
Gruesome? Burning at the stake, the garrote, drawing and quartering, throwing convicts to wild beasts, impaling, crucifixion, skinning alive...THESE are gruesome!
Firing squads, “OLD Sparky” and hanging are not.
As a vet told our horseshoeing class years ago, when he put down a horse. “Always use a needle. It simply looks nicer.”
If you wrongly convict someone and put him in prison, you can always compensate him for the time served/lost. Once you execute him, he’s dead forever. I am less certain of the 100% certainty now than I used to be.
I knew a guy years ago when we were in the Army. He got out (less than favorably) and a few years later he and another guy killed three people in a bank robbery. They got less than $2500. The guy pleaded guilty and dared the judge to sentence him to death. The judge did, and the guy played tough for about 12 years, until his death warrant actually got signed. Then he raised all kinds of havoc with the system, and finally agreed to plead guilty in exchange for not receiving the death penalty. He should have been executed years ago but still draws breath.
In the event of wrongful execution, the damages can be paid to the estate.
Thanks.
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